Grants Database

Democracy Fund collaborates with our grantees, donors, and other partners to strengthen and expand the movement for an inclusive, multiracial democracy. We are proud to have supported more than 400 organizations doing this work.

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Organization Name (A-Z) Grant Amount Type Program Area Year
  • Center for Christianity and Public Life
  • $120,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The Center for Christianity and Public Life (CCPL) is a nonpartisan institution in the nation’s capital that contends for the credibility of Christian resources in public life, for the public good. They believe Christians have much to contribute to the effort to build a healthy, inclusive civic pluralism in 21st century America.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

General
  • Duke University
  • $120,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy project brings together local news researchers and others to collaborate on a journalism ecosystem funding model that explores how to fund healthy local news ecosystems.

Project:

DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy Journalism Funding Model Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • Ethics and Public Policy Center, Inc.
  • $120,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2016

To strengthen reporting and commentary by bringing together prominent journalists and columnists of all political stripes to learn about and discuss issues related to religion that cut across partisan boundaries.

Project:

Support Faith Angle Forum

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Jul 2016 to Jun 2018

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Ethics and Public Policy Center, Inc.
  • $120,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2014

To reduce political fear mongering by bringing together prominent journalists and columnists of all political stripes to learn about and discuss issues related to religion that cut across partisan boundaries.

Project:

Support Faith Angle Forum

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Aug 2014 to Jun 2016

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Journalism & Women Symposium
  • $120,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2018

The first $80,000 installment is to support Grantee’s general charitable, educational, and/or scientific purposes as described in Grantee’s charter documents.
The second $40,000 installment is to empower the Grantee to increase and improve its organizational diversity, equity, and inclusion practices through various activities, including but not limited to collecting demographical and attitudinal data, a series of DEI-centered talks throughout Grantee’s regional chapters, and continued partnership with outside experts on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training, Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Oct 2018 to Sep 2020

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • New America Foundation
  • $120,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

The New Models of Policy Change project, housed in the Political Reform Program at New America Foundation, works on resilience against right wing extremism and growing political violence.

Project:

New Models of Policy Change

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Other, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Grant Length:

Sep 2022 to Nov 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Georgia News Lab
  • $122,504.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2020

Georgia News Lab, a fiscally sponsored project of the Institute for Nonprofit News, sustains and diversifies investigative newsrooms by training a new generation of diverse journalists across Georgia through high-impact partnerships with local newsrooms.

Project:

Georgia News Lab

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Jul 2020 to Jun 2022

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • $122,650.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2013

Researchers from MIT and other peer academic institutions will conduct research on best practices in the administration of election in order to inform the deliberations of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration.

Project:

Support Presidential Commission on Election Admin

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Jul 2013 to Jul 2015

Strategy:

Voter-Centric Election Administration
  • Washington Center for Technology Policy Inclusion
  • $125,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2021

The Washington Center for Technology Policy Inclusion (WashingTECH) convenes diverse technology public policy professionals to defend America’s rich diversity with programs that promote an inclusive narrative about technology’s impact on society.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Oct 2021 to Mar 2023

Strategy:

Digital Democracy
  • City Bureau NFP
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2023

City Bureau NFP works with a part-time coordinator to support an informal collective of community news partners to develop a theory of change, definitions, public communication, future convenings and other structures to realize their shared vision for the future of local media.

Project:

Future of Local News Group

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • The Georgia Coalition for the Peoples Agenda Inc
  • $125,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2019

To provide general operating support for the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Dec 2019 to May 2023

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • The University of Texas at Austin
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

The Solidarity Journalism project, housed at the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin, conducts research and provides trainings to reporters on Solidarity Journalism, which centers communities that have been historically excluded or harmed by journalism’s portrayal of them.

Project:

RAD Support of Solidarity Journalism

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Dec 2021 to Jan 2024

Strategy:

General
  • 100% Democracy
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • General and Field Building
  • 2023

100% Democracy, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, is an initiative dedicated to reimagining voting as both a fundamental right and a civic responsibility, with every eligible citizen required to participate in this most fundamental act of self-governance.

Project:

100% Democracy.

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Civic Participation/Public Participation

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

General
  • University of Maryland Foundation Inc.
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2017

To provide project support to the Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise at the University of Maryland, which will conduct extensive research into the current and future election cybersecurity issues faced in the State of Maryland. 

Project:

State Election Cybersecurity Assessment

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Aug 2017 to Jul 2018

Strategy:

Trust in Elections
  • Do Something Inc.
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2019

To support Do Something to build out additional capacity for further expansion into the civic engagement space and to utilize their capacity of young volunteers, tech reminders, and media campaigns in order to test different elements of the voter turnout moonshot. These activities will include using their parallel media campaign, which promotes earned and paid efforts, to get young people to engage with local Do Something leaders to promote greater engagement among their families and peers.

Project:

Moonshot Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout

Grant Length:

Nov 2019 to Nov 2020

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Nonprofit Vote
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2019

To provide support for Nonprofit VOTE’s coordination of their National Voter Registration Day (NVRD) project. Nonprofit VOTE will work to recruit and empower local partners to participate in NVRD and register voters, while simultaneously launching a national media campaign to amplify those efforts.

Project:

National Voter Registration Day II

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout

Grant Length:

Jul 2019 to Dec 2020

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Fair Elections Center
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2019

To provide support for growth and visibility of the website workelections.com, which is a site designed to collect and centralize poll worker information and applications from several jurisdictions, making it easier for local election officials and potential poll workers to connect and fill Election Day positions. 

Project:

Pollworker Recruitment Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting

Grant Length:

Aug 2019 to Dec 2020

Strategy:

Voter-Centric Election Administration
  • Foreign Policy Research Institute
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2019

The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) will analyze and distribute research on election mis/disinformation as promulgated by foreign actors. FPRI will provide a standardized review of state-sponsored media outlets, the themes and messages they advance in the U.S., and offer indicators of nefarious influence in social media.

Project:

Foreign Interference in Elections Research

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Nov 2019 to Feb 2021

Strategy:

Trust in Elections
  • Center for American Progress
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2018

To support a research project on generational change and democracy that seeks to establish the facts about Millennial/ Post-Millenial generational size inclination and relation to populism, project the effects of these new generations on future public opinion and voting behavior especially in relation to populism, and determine how to best activate and channel the views of these generations.

Project:

Project on Generational Change and American Democracy

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2018 to May 2020

Strategy:

General
  • New America Foundation
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2018

This grant will support the work of New America’s Political Reform Project, which seeks to revitalize American democratic practice by introducing new ideas and new perspectives to the public debate, putting reform ideas to the test, and bringing together activists, academics, and political practitioners to test and refine promising concepts.

Project:

Support for the Political Reform Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Government

Grant Length:

Nov 2018 to Oct 2019

Strategy:

General
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